طَبْعٌ

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طَبْعٌ , originally an Verbal.Noun, signifies A nature; or a natural, a native, or an innate, disposition or temper or the like; or an idiosyncrasy; syn. سَجِيَّةٌ or جِبِلَّةٌ and خَلِيقَةٌ; to which a man is adapted by creation; [as though it were stamped, or impressed, upon him;] as also طَبِيعَةٌ ; or this signifies his مِزَاج [i. e. constitution, or temperament, or aggregate natural constituents], composed of the [four] humours; (Msb; [see مِزَاجٌ;]) and طِبَاعٌ ; or this last signifies, or signifies also, with the article ال prefixed to it, what is, or are, constituted in us in consequence of food and drink &c. (مَا رُكِّبَ فِينَا مِنَ المَطْعَمِ وَالمَشْرَبِ وَغْيَرِ ذٰلِكَ [in which مطعم and مشرب are evidently used as inf. ns. agreeably with general analogy]), by غير ذلك being meant such as straitness and ampleness [of circumstances], and niggardliness and liberality, of the natural dispositions that are inseparable from us; and this word is fem., like طَبِيعَةٌ, as is said in the M; or it is sing. and masc. accord. to Abu-l-Kásim Ez-Zejjájee; and it is also pl. of طَبْعٌ, as it is said to be by Az; [and those who have asserted it to be fem. may have held it to be a pl.;] and طَابِعٌ is syn. with طِبَاعٌ [as a sing.]; or, as Lh says, it is syn. with طَبِيعَةٌ ; of which the pl. is طَبَائِعُ.
2 Also Model, make, fashion, or mould: as in the saying, اِضْرِبْهُ عَلَى طَبْعِ هٰذَا [Make thou it, fashion it, or mould it, according to the model, make, fashion, or mould, of this].

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